User talk:UKclaranet

 Unfortunately you seem to have come to edit Wikipedia with mistaken ideas as to the nature of Wikipedia. The account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy, and your editing history and your username indicate that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for one person acting in an individual capacity. Therefore the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. If you are interested in making useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of this page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use, and "Your reason here" with the reason why you think unblocking your account will benefit Wikipedia. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. The reason you give will need to make it clear to an administrator that you understand the reason for your block and that you will make the same kind of mistake again. To save wasting time asking for a name that's already been taken, go to Special:CentralAuth, type your name in the box, and click on the button. If the name is already in use you will see details about the account with that name, and if it isn't in use you'll see a message telling you there's no global account with that name.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by first reading guide to appealing blocks and then adding the text at the bottom of this page, replacing "Your reason here" with appropriate text. JBW (talk) 09:05, 21 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Since writing the above message I have discovered that this is by no means the first time that Claranet has had editors editing on its behalf to make the article more promotional. At least one other account has been blocked for that reason, and the person who used that account was certainly made aware of the relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, because they responded to messages about them, and made requests to be unblocked. I have also found a large number of other accounts, successively created over the years to edit on behalf of Claranet. You may not personally have known about any of this, but you were acting as an agent of a business which had been informed of the issues, and effectively your account was evading the effect of a block on another account. This endless production of accounts which edit contrary to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines must not continue. If necessary we can protect the article so that new accounts can't edit it, or even so that nobody except Wikipedia administrators can edit it, but I hope you won't make that necessary, as doing so would cause inconvenience for legitimate editors too.
 * As I have tried to indicate above, I have no reason to doubt that you personally have acted in perfectly good faith, unaware that what you were doing was not permitted by Wikipedia. However, the company you work for has now more than once been informed, through its representatives, of the situation. If anyone acting for Claranet wishes to consider editing Wikipedia again, they should first read the guideline on conflict of interest and the guide to appealing blocks, and then make a request for the blocks on accounts used by Claranet to be lifted. Any accounts which edit without doing so are likely to be blocked from editing, and to trigger protection of the article. JBW (talk) 09:59, 21 May 2024 (UTC)